新历史主义视角下浅析《黑暗之心》的语言艺术

The Language Art of Heart of Darkness from the Perspective of New Historicism

《黑暗之心》作为英国作家Joseph Conrad(约瑟夫康拉德)的代表作,小说结合了康拉德的水手经历和欧洲新殖民活动的时代背景,因其独特语言艺术而备受文学批评家关注.该小说历久弥新,在学术界和读者群体中享有很高的声誉.新历史主义关注历史文本以及其他社会话语在小说中的呈现,以及它们如何与文学文本互动.从新历史主义视角研究这部伟大作品可以有效地挖掘小说中语言所承载的各种社会力量,因此,文章从这个角度出发,研究小说中叙事、历史文本、文学传统等话语的交锋.

Heart of Darkness,the representative work of Joseph Conrad,a British writer,which combines Conrad's sailor experience with the background of European neo-colonial activities,has attracted the attention of literary critics because of its unique language art.The novel has a long history and enjoys a high reputation among academia and readership.New historicism focuses on the presentation of historical texts and other social discourses in the novel and their interaction with literary texts.Studying this great work from the perspective of new historicism can effectively explore the various social forces carried by the language in the novel and the confrontation of discourse such as novel narrative,historical text and literary tradition.